emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It only occurred to me to wonder in the last year or so why we never replaced the cardboard we pinned the paper to. We just kept making more holes in it. 020
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They may also be the apotheosis of lost socks. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I did that once with my keys. It was not a good day. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If I picked the wrong direction, I could start to see and course correct, but I had to pull myself above the panic fog first. The manufacturers of panic are counting on the fog to make us nullify our own agency. 0415
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Hyperlocal and hyperpersonal: when I dealt every day with unpredictable, sometimes dangerous customers, I learned I had to pick a direction and go. My panic wasn't leadership; my fear was contagious; I had to think and move to get to the interior space where I could think WELL, move INTENTIONALLY. 180
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In what context has *anyone* ever seen empathy from this man? I do not think this word means what GOP donors think it means. 020
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's so annoying! If they treat me like a human and serve me good food, I will be a REGULAR. I am an investment opportunity! 020
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Please, sir, impress us with your modesty and reticecence for a change. We triple dog dare you. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We have too many sweets in the house. I must eat the sweets so we don't have so many sweets. I can do this. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Omni-SCIENCE. In front of the whole class. Freshman year in college. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A showgirl goes to D.C. and reads a few books. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It may take a night or two to get past the adrenaline jags, but you will sleep. I wish you deep and joyful rest! 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The Pushcart War (Jean Merrill). All hail General Ana and Maxie Hammerman, the pushcart king. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 13/08/2026 It's supposed to be less than lethal force, right? Let's experiment with itching powder in the face gaiters. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 12/08/2026So glad you are getting help. "Okay" is a continuum with big scary gaps that show us the abyss and upset our balance. It matters so much to reach for the helping hands. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A dozen rubber bands that break when you stretch them. 030
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 22/07/2026My 89 year old mother wanted to call the MVD so a human being could explain something to her. How do you explain that she's reasonable to want that, but it will never work? 030
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Fair point. I was thinking of him as a minor character in the squalid Trump tragedy, one in a chorus of lackeys who sing 4 solo bars each about their rationale . 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is where the little red squiggle won't save you. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The human proofreader sees the difference between error and errant originality. Red squiggles, red shmiggles. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Orson Welles playing the Wellesian savant who sets up the elaborately scripted big lie in Charlotte Armstrong's The Dream Walker, directed by Hitchcock, is one of my casting fantasies. 020
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The freezer should just dispense them like ice cubes. 020
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Oval office costs could be reverse engineered/calculated from the home depot website. The unknown is the quality of the gold paint. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Wordle was just mean. Connections is usually beyond me. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Adjusting on the fly doesn't make you either a sucker or disloyal. It reveals yourself to yourself as a human doing hard human work. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you are loyal to your own value system, or clear about which of your values you are supporting as you support the person, you are not a sucker. If you are supporting the person as a manifestation of supporting one of your values in a maze of conflicting values you may have to adjust on the fly. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Not many people can watch their legacy dissolve in real time. 1230
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Whatever grip on strategery he has is buried with a bunch of stolen national archives in Ivana's tomb. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Troops, please do your research on radiation poisoning. Also Downwinders, multiple myeloma.... 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Charlotte Armstrong (active 1939 -1969) is also first rate. Her short stories "The Enemy" and "Splintered Monday" and her novel "The Dream Walker" really resonate in our current post-truth dilemma. 000
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I am so sorry you are dealing with the pile-up, pile-on. When other hard circumstances intersected with my Dad's death, I kept telling the universe that I had enough character already and no wish to build more. I just wanted to truly inhabit the grief. One breath at a time, may peace be with you. 030
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I'm sure you were sure you'd remember #beentheredonethat 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 09/05/2026If you lick the inside of the little foil Kool-Aid package for dessert, you have a complete meal. 010
emoc1525.bsky.social @emoc1525.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Maybe J.D.'s DELIBERATELY channeling Burgess Meredith's Penguin? J.D. strikes me as someone with thwarted aspirations for comic strip villainy who took up politics because it was as close as he could get to living the dream. 010
